Stock broker ends life after fall in market
Express news service
Posted: Sep 18, 2008 at 1427 hrs IST
Updated: Sep 18, 2008 at 1427 hrs IST
A share broker committed suicide with his 25-year-old wife and two and half year old son by blasting an LPG cyclinder at his home in SBH colony in Saidabad area of Hyderabad.
Bhupendra, 30, who police say was a stock broker and had been trading since last 12 years, cut the rubber pipe attached to the LPG cylinder in the kitchen of his house in G-61 and lit a match.
Police say there was a small explosion and Bhupendra, his wife Swati and child Akshay were charred to death.
Saidabad police inspector G Srinivas said it appeared that the stock broker sufferred immense losses after the Sensex started nose-diving since Tuesday and took the extreme step.